Former assisted-living nurse ordered to appear for sentencing on 2010 drug conviction

A Cumberland County judge issued a bench warrant Tuesday for a former nurse who’s postponed her sentence on a drug charge for three years because she’s too ill to travel.

Stacey Lint Neisser, 41, known locally as Stacey Lint, pleaded guilty in April 2010 to one count of of obtaining drugs by fraud, when she worked for The Bridges at Bent Creek assisted living facility in Silver Spring Township in 2009. Lint admitted she stole pain and anti-anxiety pills and took liquid morphine from hospice kits and replaced it with water.

Lint, formerly of Hershey, now lives in Kentucky. She has been granted at least 11 postponements of her sentencing, after doctors wrote to the court saying she has numerous medical conditions including autoimmune disorders, diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea and nerve palsy and has suffered a stroke and fractured vertebrae.

In a January postponement order, Judge Edward Guido said it was the last time and that he could sentence her by phone if she couldn’t show up.

The maximum sentence for the felony conviction is a $15,000 fine and five years in prison.

Guido said Lint can vacate the bench warrant, if her doctors provide a three-sentence prognosis telling the court “is she ever going to be able to leave her home?” Her attorney, Cumberland County Senior Assistant Public Defender Michael Halkias, said he submitted a package from Lint’s doctors last week, but he didn’t know if it contained the information the judge demanded.

Halkias said Lint is homebound.

In September 2009, Lint pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for stealing drugs from the Golden Living Center in East Pennsboro Township when she was a nurse there in 2008. A bench warrant had been issued in that case, also, and she was apprehended in Kentucky in August 2009 when she applied for a driver’s license.

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